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And his wife Ivy
Evans-Maquilon (former employee
of the Miami International Airport Hotel)

Mrs. Ivy
Evans-Maquilon , a member of the management team running the Miami Dade County-owned
hotel at Miami international Airport, developed a scheme which bypassed the
existing financial controls and allowed her to enrich herself, her husband Jorge
Isaac Maquilon and another employee of the Miami Dade County owned hotel.

The fraud manipulated
the existing management agreement which, when properly utilized, had the hotel
owner, Miami Dade County, reimburse the contracted hotel operators for normal
operating expenses. Under the management
agreement, expenses over $1000 required three competitive bids to secure the
best price for Miami Dade County. This
process was manipulated through the use
of fake bids to make it appear that companies owned by Ms. Ivy Evans-Maquilon’s
husband, Jorge Isaac Maquilon (Decomax and Emporium Supplies) were the best
supply source. To further facilitate
this scheme, Ivy Evans-Maquilon kept her relationship to Jorge Isaac Maquilon less
visible by only using her unmarried name (Ivy Evans) in her official hotel
capacity.

The investigation
started in 2010 when the Inspector General’s Office was informed that the Miami
International Airport Hotel had apparently been over paying anywhere from 3 to
5 times the purchase price for wallpaper Miami-Dade County already had in stock
from a previous March 2009 hotel renovation.

During this
investigation, it was discovered that the overbilling supplier, Decomax, was
owned by Jorge Isaac Maquilon and that required competitive bids were
faked. The investigation then revealed
additional frauds relating to the purchases of maintenance supplies from
Emporium Supplies Corporation, another Jorge Isaac Maquilon company. Some of
these supplies were never delivered and others were purchased and highly inflated
prices. This fraud required the
cooperation of the hotel maintenance supervisor, Nestor Aznar who profited from
the scheme but who pleaded guilty and is now cooperating in the investigation.

Jorge Isaac Maquilon
and Ivy Evans-Maquilon are both charged with:

1 Count Organize
Scheme To Defraud 1st Degree Felony

1 Count Grand Theft 1st
Degree Felony

1 Count Grand Theft 2nd
Degree Felony

"The greatest
horror for any business is to learn that a trusted employee has committed a
theft. Miami Dade County’s business of
running an airport hotel relied entirely on having a competent management team
in place. Sadly, that competency appears
to have been lacking,” commented State Attorney Katherine Fernandez
Rundle. “This detailed investigation by
the Office of the Inspector General and the Dade State Attorney's Office
unraveled some complicated financial shenanigans and supplied the evidence
necessary to build our strong criminal case."

In commenting on the arrest, Interim
Inspector General Patra Liu stated, “The Miami International Airport is
not an open pocketbook to benefit some dishonest employee or vendor. The
Miami-Dade County OIG, with our law enforcement partners at the State
Attorney’s Office, remain fully committed to rooting out fraud at all levels of
county government. I believe that Evans-Maquilon and Maquilon have gotten
that message.”